How often do you smile? Hopefully you can take a second to smile right now because a simple smile will lengthen your life, make you appear more attractive, make you smarter, help you destress. I believe that it is important to smile during a Pilates session because we do Pilates to have fun and enjoy […]
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Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated to work out even if your workout is a much-loved Pilates session. For some people working out is a motivation for life because it gives them opportunities to experience life fully. That is definitely the case for Stephani Victor who lost her legs in a car accident. However, she […]
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Would you have liked to have taken a class from Joseph Pilates himself? It would have been pretty awesome, don’t you think? Unfortunately, most of the instructors and Pilates devotees today didn’t have the privilege of working with the Genius of the Method but first generation teachers still possess the knowledge and spark that they […]
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The number of hip and knee replacements has increased by 84% in the past decade making these surgeries the 12th most common inpatient procedures in 2010. Due to the nature of a Pilates workout, it is the perfect program to facilitate recovery after hip/knee surgery. Osteoarthritis is the most common reason for a total or […]
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“When I was diagnosed with cancer, I decided right away that if I was going to have to have a tumor, I was going to do something with it.” Allison W. Gryphon has been a Pilates devotee for 5 years, but the workout became an even more important part of her life in when she […]
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What does a real post-baby body look like? It’s beautiful, if you ask me. Does this body look Vogue-cover ready? Probably not. Is this body exactly the way it was 9 months ago? Absolutely not. Does this body bear several “trophies” after triumphantly completing its most amazing and challenging 9-months-long marathon? Definitely yes. Sometimes it’s […]
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